I'm pretty salty about the fact that corporate rights seem to have more importance than human rights.
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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:wrote last edited by [email protected]
I'm pretty salty about the fact that corporate rights seem to have more importance than human rights.
No good can come from inviting the corporations in any open development space.
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FoolishOwlreplied to Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: last edited by
@onepict This is a painful lesson we've been taught again, and again, and again.
These are organizations whose explicit purpose is predatory. They *cannot* be benign.
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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:replied to FoolishOwl last edited by
@foolishowl I still remember Microsoft and the ooxml standards battle.
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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKreplied to FoolishOwl last edited by
@foolishowl @onepict I don't even see what anyone gains from this. ActivityPub is working fine as it is, it has multiple apps with millions of users, all it lacks is safety/security protections for endusers (particularly reply limiting)
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FoolishOwlreplied to Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK last edited by
@vfrmedia @onepict I've seen a fair number of technical criticisms. But the fundamental problems are political and cultural, and a major frustration was already that the Mastodon team resists solving any of those problems.
Corporate interests, including nonprofits backed by corporate interests, will aggressively make all of that worse.
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Feohreplied to Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: last edited by
@onepict Totally agree.
At least here in the US, we DESPERATELY need to do a top down and bottom up re-think of what corporations are meant to achieve for society and restructure the laws appropriately.
Like, maybe corporators need to be required to take a "Do no harm" oath AND BE LIABLE if actual harm comes to their customers?
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@foolishowl @vfrmedia @onepict what could possibly go wrong, after all its not as if getting corporations involved in HTML led to bad decisions like adding DRM and making the platform non-free
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@vfrmedia @onepict The reason a lot of us are here is because this is a non-commercial social network. Very few still exist. Very few non-commercial communication media still exist. Very few non-commercial public meeting places exist in most US cities. We are facing a crisis in which we're likely to have no viable means of public communication left.
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@foolishowl @vfrmedia @onepict I've nothing wrong with the idea of getting paid for doing work, but when there's a public commons involved, there needs to be a strong covenant to protect that commons. It's possible, and there's examples out there, but EME is a strong example of what happens without that.
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amcooper 🍉🐈⬛replied to Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: last edited by
@onepict Yes and! I think corporations, given that they seem structurally unable to stop baking the planet, have outlived their usefulness and need to be broken up and/or reconstituted as coops and/or annihilated with space lasers.
Imagine having to consider corporate rights! O tempora o mores, amirite